When I Die |HBR {Editing}

01

Chance's POV

"Squint?" Hunter, my best friend, says knocking on the door. 

"Come in," I say laughing. Hunter walks in and picks me up.

 "SQUINT!!" He yells.

 "Shh! Gabby's sleeping," I laugh as he put me down. 

"Movie?" He asks. 

"Rom-com?" I ask.

 "What the fuck is a rom-com?" He asks.

 "A romantic comedy," I say as if it was so obvious. I pull a box out from under my bed and pull out my favorite rom-com. 

"OH GOD NO!!" He groans as I put the movie in.

 "Too late," I smirk. I cuddle into his chest as he kisses the top of my head.

 "Eww! Now I have to take another shower cause I have your germs," I say wiping my head.

~+~

 After the movie, I glance over to see Hunter sleeping. I hit him in the face with a pillow.

 "Huh?" He asks as he accidentally rolls off the bed. He moans as he rubs his head in pain. 

"Aww are you ok?" I ask.

 "Yeah," He says standing up and jumping back on the bed.

 "So how did you like the movie?" I ask. 

"It was good," He lies. 

"Stop lying," I laugh. 

"You know me so well," He giggles.

 "Yeah I do. Now the truth." I smile.

 "It was decent. In real life they wouldn't have fallen in love over a football game," He says. 

"Whatever," I say as my phone buzzes. I look down to see a text. From Avery, the girl who hates me.

  {Avery}: Hey nerd. Just wanted to see if your dead yet. If not why wait? No one wants you here anyway!

I could feel the tears trickling down my cheeks. 

 "Chance?" Hunter asks grabbing my phone. 

"It's nothing," I say wiping the tears.

 "Chance this isn't nothing," He says taking a picture of the text messages.

 "It is nothing. I get it all the time," I say.

 "You aren't th-" He starts but my mom cuts him off when she yells, "Hunter, Chance, Gabby pizza's here." Hunter and I run to the kitchen. I grab the box of pepperoni pizza and run back up to my room.

 "Chance if you eat all of that I'll kill you!" Hunter jokes as he runs after me. 

"You can have it," I smile. I only eat 1 meal and that's breakfast which is usually a bowl of fruit. 

"But you just went crazy over it." He sounds very skeptical.

Hunter

"Chance if you eat all of that I'll kill you!" I joke, chasing after her. 

"You can have it," She weakly smiles.

"But you just went crazy over it," I say confused. 

"You have to promise you won't tell anyone what I'm about to tell you," She sighs getting serious all of a sudden. 

"I promise," I say honestly. 

"I only eat breakfast. I'm trying to lose weight," She says looking down at her fingers which fumble with each other. 

"Look, you are perfect just the way you. You don't need to lose weight." I reach over and hug her tightly. 

"That's not what Avery says." 

"Who cares what Avery thinks? She's stupid," I groan in frustration. She pulls back from the hug and looks up at me. 

"It's okay," I say hugging her again. She cries into my sweatshirt. I kiss the top of her head. 

 "You should get some sleep," I say looking into her tired eyes. 

"Okay." She sighs, lying on her bed and cuddling under the covers.

 "I'm cold." She groans. 

"You want me to lay with you?" I ask. She nods with a yawn. I lay with her and she cuddles into my chest. 

"I'm still cold." She mumbles. 

"You want my sweatshirt?" I ask.

 "Yes please." I take off my sweatshirt causing my shirt to fly up. She looks at me with eyes wide open. 

"What?" I ask with a small laugh. 

"Nothing." She says as I throw her the sweatshirt. She puts it on and cuddles into my chest again.

~+~

"Hunter your mom called she wants to know if you're coming home." Mrs. Winters says walking into the dark room. 

"Is it okay if I stay the night?" I whisper. 

"Yeah. Here I'll get you some pajamas," She says. I smile. Chance has been sleeping for a while now. I've been playing with her hair listening to her phone buzz every now and then. Her mom comes into the room with a pair of pajamas. I go into the bathroom and change. I come out to see that Chance was up. She was staring at her phone screen. 

"Do you really think that's a good idea?" I ask.

 "No." She says in a quiet voice.

 "Give it." I say holding out my hand and she hands me her phone. I look at the messages.

{Avery}: Aww. Did the nerd actually kill herself?

{Avery}: Good, the world would be a whole lot better without idiots like you.

{Avery}: I see you read all my texts why are you still alive? Hunter doesn't like you. He's pretending. He's in love with me so you can back your ugly butt away from him!

"You read them didn't you?" I ask her. She nods tears in her eyes. 

"Look I'm not pretending and I don't like sluts or whores. I like you. You're like my sister. Just ignore her," I say, hugging her. "Just go back to sleep," I mumble as she cuddles into my chest.  She looks up at me and I kiss her on the forehead. I pull away a minute later. She looks down. I smile. She cuddles into my chest and closes her eyes. She been getting bullied by Avery for about 2 years now and I want to be the reason she's happy.